Long Form

Millions will be bitten by venomous snakes each year and for many, antivenom will remain painfully out of reach. Here's why.

In Rwanda, schoolgirls can now buy locally produced, cheaper sanitary towels.

Specialist doctors at many state facilities aren’t showing up to work despite earning millions of rands a year in taxpayer money. The consequences for patient health can be devastating but not everyone agrees on the solutions.

Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.

Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.

Eighty two of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago, have been released. But what now?

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem like the best option. But Joanna Moorhead is glad she chose less extensive surgery.

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

South African jails are making notable strides in screening for, and curing, tuberculosis.

Many women consult traditional healers, so it makes sense to enlist these cultural leaders in public health education.

Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait for the cover of darkness to take action.

We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.

A mother's love led her to South Africa to find a school for her son with autism.

Could psychosocial programmes turn extremists into moderates?

In the war on women's bodies, the casualties stretch far beyond US' 50 states.